Leeds Crown Court sentenced Hardeep Bhachu to 12 years and Jasskamal Riyat to 16 years for a street-racing crash that killed a mother and her young daughter.

Monday's prison terms are the sentences on convictions already in the file. Bhachu's guilty pleas and Riyat's jury verdicts are the findings on two counts each of causing death by dangerous driving. BBC News called Bhachu's car an Audi TT RS and said the mother and daughter were walking to nursery. West Yorkshire Police called it a white Audi TT and said they were walking to school. The Yorkshire Evening Post reported Riyat's verdict was unanimous.

BBC News, the Yorkshire Evening Post and West Yorkshire Police reported that Leeds Crown Court on Monday, Oct. 26, 2026, sentenced Hardeep Bhachu, 29, to 12 years in prison and Jasskamal Riyat, 37, to 16 years. BBC News reported Bhachu, of Grant Row in Adel, had pleaded guilty to two counts of causing death by dangerous driving, and that Riyat, of Buckstone Avenue in Moortown, was convicted by a jury after denying he had been racing. West Yorkshire Police reported the guilty plea was entered in June 2024 and that sentencing waited until Riyat's trial ended. The Yorkshire Evening Post reported that verdict was unanimous after a five-day trial in August, and that Riyat is a car salesman. All three reported that each man was banned from driving for six years and must take an extended driving test.

The crash was shortly after 8:30 a.m. on Jan. 16, 2023, on Scott Hall Road in Leeds. BBC News reported Justyna Hulboj, 27, and her four-year-old daughter were struck by an Audi TT RS as they walked to the girl's nursery, and that both were killed. West Yorkshire Police reported the mother and daughter were walking to school, that both died at the scene, and that Bhachu lost control and hit them before colliding with the wall of the Vertu Jaguar Leeds dealership. The force called his car a white Audi TT. BBC News and the Evening Post called it an Audi TT RS. Those accounts are the same morning and the same two people. They do not use the same words for the car or for where the mother and her daughter were going.

BBC News reported prosecutors said the two men, who did not know each other, accelerated away from traffic lights, and that Riyat's BMW reached speeds of up to 89 mph in a 40 mph zone before Bhachu lost control, mounted the pavement and struck Hulboj and her daughter. The Evening Post reported Bhachu was travelling at almost 90 mph when he hit a kerb, and that Riyat was driving a BMW M135i. West Yorkshire Police, in its August account of the verdict, called that car a black BMW 135i. The Evening Post reported the men spoke through their windows at the lights and that Riyat was "egging him on." It reported he was heard on his phone footage saying, "Watch this guy let it off. He is gone," that he filmed the crashed car as he passed, and that he left for work without calling emergency services. West Yorkshire Police reported Bhachu's dashcam captured him boasting that his Audi had 560 horsepower and that he had only been at quarter throttle, and that Riyat was arrested the afternoon of the crash.

BBC News reported Judge Singh told the defendants, "A road is not a race track. A powerful car is not an invitation to test its limits on a public road," and, "The consequences of competitive driving at extreme speed can be, and in this case were, irreversible." BBC News reported he said the deaths had consequences that were "immeasurable," with an "immense" impact on those left behind. Susannah Proctor, for Bhachu, told the court her client was a "normal person who's made a massive mistake" and that "He did not intend to cause this devastation but cause it he has," BBC News reported. BBC News reported Hulboj's fiancé, Dominik Czepczor, watched the hearing, and that a statement from him said, "My whole world collapsed in one second," and, "My dream was to have a wonderful family, and I must say that it came true for a short while, but that was taken away from me on January 16." Detective Inspector Paul Conroy, of the force's Major Collision Enquiry Team, said, "A woman and her young daughter have died because of the actions of these men, and I know no sentence will ever feel enough to compensate for the lives that have been lost." The June 2024 guilty pleas and the August jury verdicts are the convictions. Monday's prison terms, driving bans and retest orders are the sentences. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.